Q.1.
When Mr Utterson is haunted by thoughts of Mr Hyde after hearing Mr Enfield's story, he reimagines the scene as appearing "before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures". What similar technology was available to Victorians at the time of the novella's publication?
Q.2.
The novella contains elements of several different genres. Which of the following genres does NOT contribute to the novel?
Q.3.
Dr Jekyll's desire to understand and to control his personality by means of science is related to which of the following fields of study?
Q.4.
Mr Enfield refers to the building with the strange door as "Black Mail House", but does not believe its owner to be Dr Jekyll, who, he says, "lives in some square or other". Why does Mr Enflied not realise that Dr Jekyll's address is the same as that of the building in the by-street?
Q.5.
Robert Louis Stevenson gained a degree in which field?
Q.6.
"There something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?" What is meant by the term "troglodytic"?
Q.7.
Which notorious murders took place in London in 1888, only two years after the novella's publication?
Q.8.
"And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes." To what use does Mr Utterson put his horrific dreams about Hyde?
Q.9.
Which book published in 1859 dramatically changed accepted views about nature?